From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 22 21: 1:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.veriohosting.com (gatekeeper.veriohosting.com [192.41.0.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CEBF37B4C5 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 21:01:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by gatekeeper.veriohosting.com; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:01:23 -0700 (MST) Received: from unknown(192.168.1.7) by gatekeeper.veriohosting.com via smap (V3.1.1) id xma022372; Wed, 22 Nov 00 22:01:07 -0700 Received: from vespa.orem.iserver.com (vespa.orem.iserver.com [192.168.1.144]) by orca.orem.veriohosting.com [Verio Web Hosting, Inc. 801.437.0200] (8.8.8) id WAA20905; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:01:07 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:19:48 -0700 (MST) From: Fred Clift X-Sender: fred@vespa.orem.iserver.com To: Siegbert Baude Cc: chad@DCFinc.com, Roman Shterenzon , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: IA64booting was:Re: Dangerously Dedicated In-Reply-To: <004001c05398$7fdb8080$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > For the IA64 no dd will work at all, as a valid MBR is a strict requirement. When I first heard this I about threw up. It makes me sick. And a fat32 partition is required for booting too. blech. As a co-worker is fond of saying, 'All the problems with the pc-architecture can be traced back one way or another to weird bios and bios-compatability problems...' The ONE good thing about the Itanic :) and it's booting specification is that there _IS_ a specification, that specfies exactly what to do. Thus, perhaps there will be a bit more uniformity in hardware design. Fred -- Fred Clift - fclift@verio.net -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message